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Top: Science: Biology: Flora_and_Fauna: Animalia: Chordata: Aves: Charadriiformes: Scolopacidae

This family of birds includes sandpipers, snipes, curlews, woodcocks, phalaropes, and allies.

Arenaria

Genus of Turnstones.

Calidris

This genus includes the sandpipers, knots, stints, the Sanderling, and the Dunlin.

Limosa

This genus includes the godwits.

Philomachus

Genus of birds in the Scolopacidae family, the ruffs.

Scolopax

This genus consists of the woodcocks.

Tringa

The species included in this genus are the redshanks, greenshanks, yellowlegs, tattlers, and seven species of sandpipers.

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